Despite being a cat lover, when I first came across Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, I wasn’t sure if I would like the book. A cat wearing shoes isn’t unusual in a picture book but after my first reading I wasn’t able to get a feel for the book. However when I read it with my storytime…
Cat lovers everywhere will fall in love with this delightful book that captures the habits of a very unusual cat… a cat who happens to be an elephant! Gilles Bachelet’s My Cat, The Silliest Cat in the World is an enjoyable book to be shared with readers whether they love cats or not. The daily routine of this uncommon species of cat is…
Genie Wishes is a book that I wish was written when my own daughter was beginning to navigate the waters of middle school madness. This is a refreshing read, with a tween protagonist that is just a tween. No super powers, no gratuitous angst, no super natural being. Just the story of a tween being a tween. Elisabeth Dahl‘s debut novel…
I love juicy words. As a reader I am always tickled when I come across words that are not in my normal vocabulary and attempt to incorporate the word into my every day speech. When I was given a copy of AlphaBest: The Zany, Zanier, Zaniest Book about Comparatives and Superlatives to review for work, I fell in LOVE! This book…
Or a rambling type of way in which I admit some flaws.Last week, in one of the blogging groups that I am a member of a discussion was generated about a program in which scores of bloggers applied for and, of the select few picked, only one candidate selected was a person of color. That did not bother me as…